Multi-Project Management with MS Project Server

Lonza: Implementation of a Global Multi-Project Environment 

The Company: Lonza is one of the world’s leading suppliers to the pharmaceutical, healthcare and life science industries. Its products and services span customers’ needs from research to final product manufacture. It is the global leader in the production and support of active pharmaceutical ingredients both chemically as well as biotechnologically. Lonza is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. The company has operations around the world and is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange. In 2010, the company had sales of CHF 2.680 billion.

The Challenge: In its increasingly dynamic multiproject environment, Lonza wanted to significantly accelerate response times to customer queries about resource availability for new R&D projects. It also targeted increased transparency for project costs and scheduling as well as the provision of easier reporting for management.

The Solution: At Lonza, TPG has implemented an enterprise project management system based on Microsoft Project 2007 and linked to SharePoint 2007. It has also implemented TPG PSLink to integrate the company’s SAP system with the new project management solution and seamlessly synchronize data between the two. Lonza also uses TPG ProjectLink to provide a graphical overview of links between tasks, schedules and costs across multiple projects.

The Benefits: Excellent user acceptance as users find they can work more quickly and efficiently with the new system and retrieve project information more easily, as each project now has its own portal.

Project status: Ongoing, with initial deployment completed in 2008 followed by geographical and functional extensions since then. Lonza is also working with TPG to upgrade from MS Project 2007 to the 2010 version in late 2011 and estimates it will have over 800 users worldwide by the end of 2012.

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